The_Decryptor

Figuring out how to more efficiently house/care for a glut of humans farther in the future is way more practical.

Our government’s started means testing care services due to the projected costs and loss of tax income as the population ages and costs increase.

It doesn’t help that the only form of economic management they do is offer tax cuts, they’re getting less and less tax out of an already declining share of the population.

Yeah I think they’re generally regarded as a mistake, browsers have removed all the UI signifying an EV cert these days.

moot created the site in response to lowtax banning hentai on Something Awful, I’m not sure I’d call that “innocent”

I wish the tooling around Secure Scuttlebutt wasn’t so annoying to use, more attention might have had some of the rough edges filed off.

On one hand you can have an offline first replication method (Phones syncing messages over bluetooth, etc.), but then you can’t post from multiple devices without moving your account between them.

It’s also not a progressive JPEG either.

Guessing you used this page for that?

https://tools.myfooddata.com/nutrient-ranking-tool/Choline/Nuts-and-Seeds/Highest

Try adding the “Vegan” option, and it’ll list 91 food types that contain more choline by weight

I should have and honestly might have, been long enough that I don’t remember that aspect.

So in the same week back in 2013 I did 2 things.

1. Buy a Star Citizen package with the game and a ship with lifetime insurance
2. Buy a 3 pack of hand built laser pointers from a local online store

Now the price wasn’t exactly the same, but close enough that I considered them equal. A week after buying the laser pointers I get an email saying that parts were on back order and there’d be a delay.

A week after that, their entire online store presence vanished, and they stopped responding to emails about my order.

To this day I’m still more salty about the laser pointers, since at least RSI keep sending me emails with updates.

2011? That’s basically last week right?

Support for it (and UEFI ) came with their push into servers, they were forced to make the platform a lot less special and more general purpose like x86 traditionally has been.

End user facing hardware is a different matter though, like I know you can boot the Raspberry Pi via UEFI/ACPI (It builds the ACPI tables in the bootloader), but then Apple doesn’t use it at all for their ARM hardware and it uses something closer to a modern OpenFirmware.

I think x86 is basically the only platform that’s used ACPI, other hardware usually ships a fixed hardware list in firmware that the bootloader/kernel can read (Since it’s not like the motherboards are modular, e.g. the RTC is never going to randomly be connected to a different controller)

Historically ARM didn’t even do that, it was mostly used in tightly linked systems so you’d just build those assumptions into the software itself (e.g. a Gameboy always has a directional pad on specific pins, so you just read those pins directly) I remember the early days of the Raspberry Pi involved device dependent kernel images because they had to code the specific initialisation routines into the drivers, it took a while for them to gain “device tree” support so you could have a generic kernel.

That’s “Extended ASCII”, basic ASCII only has upper and lowercase latin characters and things like <, =, >, and ?

And probably half of the control codes are still used, mostly in their original form too, teletype systems. They’re just virtual these days.

The lossy mode is a dirty hack, the lossless mode is genuinely good though.

Shame it only supports a subset of what PNG does though.

They’re just going to feed it to some LLM and then rely on the slop it outputs.

If it makes you feel any better, he didn’t steal it directly from Heinlein.

He stole it from his ex Grimes.

It might not have sit well with the fans - he might take a big swing and miss - but at least I felt like he was trying to create art instead of merely making money.

Same, I actually loved how his story had Rey as a “nobody” whose choices and actions were what made her important, SW has way too many special bloodlines, prophecies, and chosen ones.

Then Abrams does a 180 in the sequel 😑

I still hate that god damned dagger.

Probably ~15 years ago I knew a guy who used to help run a large local forum, one day without warning they got cut off entirely by Google because they decided some of their content wasn’t suitable to run ads against, so that was it the entire site got blocked.

Ended up having to break the site into 2 separate domains, one advertiser friendly, and one they wouldn’t touch.

A place I worked at did it by duplicating and modifying a function, then commenting out the existing one. The dev would leave their name and date each time, because they never deleted the old commented out functions of course, history is important.

They’d also copy the source tree around on burnt CDs, so good luck finding out who had the latest copy at any one point (Hint: It was always the lead dev, because they wouldn’t share their code, so “merging to main” involved giving them a copy of your source tree on a burnt disk)

Is it really malicious if you do it by yourself, to yourself?

What’s creating these shortcuts though, and why isn’t that considered a risk?

Valve said the same about EA when they used them to publish the Orange Box, seems they’re great as partners but not owners.